It's not easy being a missionary, even with the key to the cosmos in your hand.

Lewis had developed a trademark style, slow enough for note taking, loud enough to rouse the dullest listener, straightforward, abundantly furnished with quotations, and lavish in wit.

A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.

We must picture Oxford, during World War I, not as the neomedieval paradise it would like to be, but as the military compound it was obliged to become.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

Now he must put into practice all his fine poetic thoughts about romantic love.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

...many organizations don't realize that they have a much better option-they can tell their story directly to an interested market.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history.

Why get married? For human beings, marriage is such an unnatural state. If you want monogamy, it has been said, you should marry a swan.

Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?